FB Final: Louisiana 27, Nicholls State 24

[MelRock]

In my nonprofessional opinion, the problem is like most teams these days. NO ONE knows how to tackle.

[Cajun Monkee]

Teaching a system, techniques and motivation are all part of the coaches responsibility. Game planning is probably as important as the rest in my opinion. If anyone believes a guy that was hired by an NFL team and was also your offensive coordinator will not be missed, we will disagree. Anytime you change that many coaches in a staff, there will be some challenges in keeping your operation consistent. I thought that was going to a the one major question mark this year's staff would have to answer. After the first two games, I still believe that to be the case.

You mentioned we started the season similarly last season on offense. Remember, the team had no spring practice and summer sessions were reduced dramatically. And there were a number of injuries during fall camp at the wr position.

This season the team held a full spring schedule and conducted summer sessions as planned. The team also returned 20 starters and close to 30 athletes that played significant reps last year. So I'm not buying the offensive gets off to slow starts under Coach Napier mindset. To me it starts with continuity in the staff. I do believe it will be fixed, but it may cost us a few games that many of us thought we would win this season. And it's not just the offensive execution, the defense has suffered through poor tackling and blown assignments.

As for the concessions service and long lines, I don't eat stadium food that much, so I usually drink water and I wasn't interested in standing in lines for 30 minutes to buy a bottle. It matters not to me if I had the RCAF card, or not. If you challenge fans, students and the community to come out and support the team, and your concessions were terrible and the food shortage shows a lack of preparation. Dr. Maggard thought it was poor enough to issue a personal to ticket holders and RCAF members via email. That's good enough for me.

So I think we agree on the continuity of staffing creating issues.

Point taken on the lack of preseason practicing last year.

And as far as concessions go, I know I’m in the minority but I have zero feelings for game peripherals.

Concessions, and game music, cheerleading?

I know I’m the exception but give me a bottle or two of water and I’m good.

[CajunT]

So I think we agree on the continuity of staffing creating issues.

Point taken on the lack of preseason practicing last year.

And as far as concessions go, I know I’m in the minority but I have zero feelings for game peripherals.

Concessions, and game music, cheerleading?

I know I’m the exception but give me a bottle or two of water and I’m good.

Agree.

[Cajun Monkee]

Love your attitude. We need more of it!

My wife gets all the credit.

She has a High tolerance for fools and children.

And I check both boxes.

[facelessjonmoon]

Saw little spying. Middle open nearly every play that we pressured their QB. All he had to do was avoid rush and he had open field in front of him. Still don’t understand non use of Levi in run game. It’s his strength as even his short passes were often thrown poorly. They were caught but were short, behind receiver. He also had a number of perfectly throw balls. Just not enough.

Spot on

Regarding Levi not running, why does Napier keep calling zone read plays? The defense knows Levi will not keep it and crash down on the RB every single time

If Levi ever did pull it, he’d be running for days

[ULGrad@HOU]

On a positive note: At least we play Florida State next year.

[JMV JustMyView]

If I was an interviewer, I would ask Napier what grade would he give the team, which includes him.

We have no interviewers in the Lafayette market that has any balls to ask the hard questions.

[Cajunsmike]

So I think we agree on the continuity of staffing creating issues.

Point taken on the lack of preseason practicing last year.

And as far as concessions go, I know I’m in the minority but I have zero feelings for game peripherals.

Concessions, and game music, cheerleading?

I know I’m the exception but give me a bottle or two of water and I’m good.

I am good with a bottle of Powerade. Still, I generally agree with you. I very rarely have problems at concession stand at sporting events simply because I don't often partake in them. Seeing action on field more important to me than eating or drinking. I make sure I take care of that prior to kickoff. RCAF card did help me last night however when I picked up a couple of powerades prior to game. Some members may not realize that is a perk.

[Cajunsmike]

Saw little spying. Middle open nearly every play that we pressured their QB. All he had to do was avoid rush and he had open field in front of him. Still don’t understand non use of Levi in run game. It’s his strength as even his short passes were often thrown poorly. They were caught but were short, behind receiver. He also had a number of perfectly throw balls. Just not enough.

As Jay Walker said, Ferrod Gardner was missed last night. However his backup is the guy who got the pick six. The few times we rushed only three, Scott completed a pass. That guy deserves credit for his play.

[Duggie35]

So I think we agree on the continuity of staffing creating issues.

Point taken on the lack of preseason practicing last year.

And as far as concessions go, I know I’m in the minority but I have zero feelings for game peripherals.

Concessions, and game music, cheerleading?

I know I’m the exception but give me a bottle or two of water and I’m good.

I also agree. I do my eating and drinking before the game while tailgating or hanging out in the parking lot. When I go into the stadium I go to my seats and watch the game. I haven't purchased anything from the concession stands in several years. I might get up to make a restroom run at halftime if necessary, but that's it. But then again, I realize I am in that only 1% or 2% of fans.

[ragin50]

We really missed Ferrod last night in particular. He does the quarterback spy thing better than anyone. Scott wouldn't have gotten nearly as much done as a scrambler had he been healthy.

I don't think we miss Sale as an OC as much, per se as we do losing both of our OL coaches. That unit needs to play better.

Many of us (myself included) thought our running game wouldn't miss a beat despite losing Mitchell and Ragas. We were wrong.

I don't criticize play calling because even Stevie Wonder can see what a bad play call is after it happens. It's the dumbest criticism by fans.

Maybe so, but running the ball on 2nd and 19 and 3rd and 10 is baffling. Also, why were our DBs giving so much cushion?

[cajun4life]

Spot on

Regarding Levi not running, why does Napier keep calling zone read plays? The defense knows Levi will not keep it and crash down on the RB every single time

If Levi ever did pull it, he’d be running for days

Most likely it’s RPO’s. Not zone reads.